Some of the core arguments for this year's topic are handled in our Generic Groups, composed of a few students from each lab. Below are the Generic leaders with their descriptions. The **__complete file__** is available by clicking on the generic name and going to their generic page.


**[[ConditioningCP|Conditioning CP/Aid Fails]]** (Berthiaume) We will research arguments about how aid to Africa fails to solve the problems as well as a counterplan which suggests that the US should condition future aid on reforms in countries. Final arguments can be used as a counterplan with net benefit, stand alone DA, and case turns.
Elizabeth Allan, Boyd Gardner, David Gritz, Stephen Li, Ashish Patra, Justin Patrick, Sam Reetz, Ogi Zugic
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**[[Population Generic|Population]]** (Clark) We will research population pressures in Africa and the argument that saving lives now will result in more deaths in the future. 10 in the crunch. Enough said.
Robert Awh, Marta Chlistunoff, Adam Freedman, Kathy Hutchison, Bonnie MacFarlane, David Sterman, Kyle Sutton
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**[[Europe Generic|Europe CP]]** (Culpepper) This Generic will focus on the benefits of having Europe enact the mandates of the plan. The CP may be a specific European country as its actor or the European Union.
Mike Carlotti, Pavan Krishnamurthy, Justin Moor, Grant Nelson, Fadi Pulous, Nick Ramsey, Andrew Snow, Kyra Weiss, David Wolkowicz
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**Soft Power Bad** (Greenstein) This core will provide both an offensive and defense assault against any team that reads a soft power advantage. The file will include answers to specific soft power good impacts affirmative teams might read as well as provide various other external impact turns.
Nithya Amaraneni, Neil Bapodra, Jeffrey Boxer, Farhan Daredia, Annie Deng, Mike Gajewsky, Kristina Gunnarsdottir, Emma Manson, Jesse Spafford, Dexter Zhuang
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**[[Japan Generic|Japan]]** (Heaton) Are you tired of the only time you talk about Japan is on an irrelevant consult CP? Come work to actually apply Japan to the current topic! Japan has been an integral actor in African public health issues for years. Find out (and write answers to) why Japan is better at it than the US (Japan CP) and why the US should get off their turf (Japan Soft power DA)!
Trevor Chenoweth, Brian Cole, Brad Meloche, Sean O'Brien, Derek Park, Rohan Sadagopal, Jake Sendar, Lara Townzen
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[[China Generic|China]] (Mancuso) China uses public health assistance in Africa to win soft power and access to oil. They perceive themselves in a zero-sum struggle there with the U.S. In recent years China has taken advantage of American neglect of Africa to build up an impressive array of alliances and energy sources. China would perceive new American public health policies in Africa as an effort to contain China and to deny it oil. This generic group will be writing (1) a multi-faceted disadvantage -- scenarios will include Chinese nationalism and South China Sea lash out; and (2) a China counterplan that will defend China's ability to solve affirmative harm areas with their own public health assistance. This strategy will provide an amazingly useful strategy to use against a wide variety of affirmatives.
Jordan Daniels, Helen Ho, Alex Katz, CJ LeSueur, Nick Lind, David Manella, Julius Mitchell, Rob Rein, Hao Shen, Nick Simmons
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**[[Critical IR|Critical IR/Security]]** (Marks) We'll expose the dangerous lies of disease securitization, myths of African instability, fallacies of softpower, the silliness of terrorism, and xenophobic fears of China to boot. We'll also spend some time on why the diseased should not be deceased, how to secure humanity, African powder kegs, why Osama is a threat, why China is evil, and why Krispy Kremes are better than Dunkin' Donuts.
Tonia Beglari, Ronak Bhatt, Deepak George, Jon Libgober, Anjan Patnaik, Kelly Stroh, Daniel Watkins, Mark Zhang, Grace Zhang
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**[[Politics Generic|Politics with Powers]]** (Powers) This generic will produce a file outlining the political consequences of the various proposals for increasing public health assistance to sub-Sahara Africa. Emphasis will be placed on researching the heart of the disadvantage, including specific links to the potential affirmatives that will most likely be written, as well as the most up-to-date political theory advising the "internal links" of the argument. We hope to produce a generic that aptly prepares the DDI (and especially the 'politics with powers' researchers) for the nuanced and well-researched politics arguments that are often reserved for high-level elimination debates.
Tommy Beyer, Risha Bhattachanrjee, Steve Bomze, Jessica Castillo, Rebecca Drapkin, Leo Hayes, Christophe Kolandjian, Zach Levine, Nikki Nabulsi, Bala Sekaran
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[[Spending Aid Tradeoff Generic|Spending/Aid Tradeoff]] (Quinn) A core disadvantage on this topic. Besides the classic economy disads like Fiscal Discipline, we'll look into scenarios more applicable to foreign assistance such as Congressional earmarking and USAID tradeoff. Tell your friends.
Sam Huppert, Mindy Huynh, Sam Page, Michael Park, Geoff Parker, VIctor Shao, Ben Sigrist
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**[[African Union Generic|African Union]]** (Serrano) The African Union CP and disad. We will be investigating the major changes happening this summer in the AU, including the possible formation of the United States of Africa, and the ramification of major US action upon them. We'll also look into other potential regionalism and pan-africanism net benefits to a CP.
Kiran Bhat, Chrissy Boyd, Nicholas Dumlao, Julia Goff, Robin Gray, Joe Grimes, Amy Hu, Brandon Law, Lisa Pang, Sara Simonis
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**//space matters//** (shanahan) this generic takes seriously the spatial turn in academic theory: specifically, we should produce an affirmative-inclusive strategy around the racist, imperialist topical structure, “sub-saharan africa,” as well as develop a sophisticated critical approach to post-colonialism and the spaces commonly known as “africa”
Alex Bonnet, Corey Cameron, Ben Chang, Julia Coursey, Nathan DuPont, Jeff Gianattasio, Sam Hogan, Farzon Lotfi, Ilana Maier, Emily Owens, Jonathan Sidney, Ryan Wash
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**Development Kritik** (Turner) We'll write a position that criticizes the western developmental assumptions underlying much of health assistance policy and a wide variety of potential aff advantage areas--including humanitarianism/moral obligation, the concept of public health, U.S. leadership/softpower and others.
Jenny Bragiel, Shawnee Brunson, Adit Chipalkatti, Trusha Daya, Lisa Ha, Ram Jayakumar, Ilias Karim, Nimish Sheth, Alex Stacy